The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-12
HISTORY OF THE CRIME
Events that illuminated in the Hnymnrket
Riot and In Yesterdny's Tragedy.

HISTORY OF THE CRIME
Events that illuminated in the Haymnrket
Riot and In Yesterday's Tragedy.
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Three years ago it was
an almost everyday occurrence in the streets
to sec professions with red banners and blood
thirsty placards. Then came Sunday gather
ings Of foreigners and demagogues on the lake
front, secret cellar drillings by hundreds Of ig-
norant fanatcal riflemen. and dynamite ex-
periments in the woods skirting the suburbs.
Later on. secluded in the quiet of down-to town
back rooms, conclaves Of sharp. interruptions
leaders eagerly discussed as their long coveted
opportunity the development of the working
mans concentrated movement for uniform
eight-hour day. The world knows how the gil
gantic, peaceful strikes were turned into riots,
and every civilized people was startled by the
bomb massacre in the Haymarket. Then came
the State trial, the amazing bravado Of the one
American defendant the stern sentence of the
Court the grotesqpe marriage Of one Of the
prisoners. and a crowd of later events that
have kept attention fixed upon the Anarchists
Of Chicago.
THE ANARCHIST SOCIETY.
The keynote OF all this Is found in the plat
form OF the International Arbeiter Association
of which organization August Spies and his
seven co-defendants were leading members
and upholders. In the International platform
it Is urged that the present system under
which property is owned by individuals should
been produced by labor should be transformed
existed xsa in the United States chiefly at the
great industrial centres. Chicago alone being
the ill;starred ppssessor OF seven. Only por-
ton of the members were armed, yet the num-
ber OF this class In Chicago exceeded 5000,
every man Of whom attended regular military
could obtain dynamite and bombs for the ask
ing The unarmed members Of the groups
were constantly in contact with their armed
brethren, and in hearty sympathy with their
purposes and their principles. This compact,
well-discipined association had for its organs
Harm, and ' the Anarchist. Excepting y young
Louis Lingg, the men who were tried for the
Haymarket crime were all connected with
these newspapers
LEADERS IN THE PLOT.
August Spies. a keen, cynical Hessian. was
little Texan, Albert Il. Parsons. brother OF a
ts head 81 hs Geose Ene
H His sS %a sm Fssn he Ts Of
ding agitator. and Oscar Nee6e, the polished.
more especially concerned in other than Jour
nalistie branches OF tho .Pronaganda. they
the e tn Gn OF the
Bavarian. Michael schwab, was Spiess assist
ant. editor, and his fellow countryman, Adolph
Arteiter's foreman. Not one of these mon could
candidly deny that no was instrumental in
helping on the catastrophe at the Haymarket.
PREPARING FOR REVOLUTION.
During the months preceding the bomb
throwing the defendants, one and all, were in;
cessantly active in agitating, organizing. and
making sxpsIims ,1 Their spesches ana a.
the laboring people to provide themselves with
firearms and dynamite, Specific instructions
how to make bombs. and how to procure weap-
ons; The conspirators said they were making
ready fol, the coming social revolution" Tho
revolution" was frequently defined In speech
and writing as "a sudden. bloody. forcibe up
heaval of the right Of private ownership of
society in which all property should be held in
The period Of confusion likely, to follow, the
mammoth strikes for the Eight-hour law fixed
for May !, 1886. was definitely announced
months before as the time when the fearful
bolt should fall. These facts were abundantly
= The ,dIIpbolism, was fully shared IN by women.
Especially was this the case in the fantastic
sions with torches that attempted ut night to
enter the EsW Board of Trade
pheming intruders OF both sexes were forced
back at the I'M muzzles Of police reyolyers In
in their proper element, Among the many
strange occurrence preceding the Haymarket
tragedy was the parade on Thanksgiving day,
when. in ridicuie of President Cleveand's
proclamation. nearly q thousand men and
women. headed by banners of black and red,
trayersed the choice residence avenues, wildly
yelling and scofflng at the wel-dressed people
who crowded to the Windows anxious to learn
the cause OF tumult.
MAKING THE BOMBS.
Tho city authorities affected to ignore all
ebullitions OF the mob. Az result OF this Off
cial indifference, when the time came at last
for the eight-hour labor disturbances the An
Rrchists Were n power indeed. and the police
were ignorant Of danger. Just one day before
the time set for tho strikes Louis Lingg, the
bomb maker, slipped into his lodgings a heavy,
suspicious looking box, three feet In length,
The box contained a large quantity OF dyna-
mite. For many weeks previous Lingg had
been purchasing and expert menting with dyn-
amite as the paid agent of one Of the Inter-
national groups" He made the bomb
that was heard around the world, On
May l tho eiGht-hour strikes began
IN earnest, and by nightfall when
$4,000 men walked the streets idie. Promptly
next morning, Sunday, the stuffy little ,Bohe-
milan Hall on Emma street was crowded with
members Of the "Lohr. and Weir Verein." an
inner circle OF the omnipresent International,
Detailed plans for the. near-at- hand conflict
with the police were sqbmitted bX Editor En-